Showing posts with label Error Save Site as template. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Error Save Site as template. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Error exporting the list named “Announcements” at the URL: Lists/Announcements while saving site as template in SharePoint

One of my client having a requirement that to create sub sites programmatically using SharePoint site template location in solution gallery. We need to create a site with some lists and libraries and save it as site template by navigating to site settings and clicking on save site as template link. By doing this I got an error saying that,
Error exporting the list named “Announcements” at the URL: Lists/Announcements

Tried to rename the list, but got the same error with another list. By Checking the logs I have found the error message below,
SPSolutionExporter: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

After some troubleshooting on the issue, I have found that few of custom content types not set to defaults in site and site collection level.

To fix this issue run the following power shell commands to disable and enable the content type feature.

Disable-SPFeature –Identity ctypes –url “Site Collection URL

Enable-SPFeature –Identity ctypes –url “Site Collection URL

After running this power shell commands there is no change in content types. Now we can save the site template with out any issues.